Offerings & Events

Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.

In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit

We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.

Creative Healers Hub
Mar
15

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Mar
19

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

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Cacao + Breathwork
Mar
19

Cacao + Breathwork

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN for an offering that combines ceremonial cacao with a guided conscious connected breathwork journey. Experience emotional release, listen inward and reconnect with your inner wisdom.

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Collective Wisdom: Artificial Intimacy — AI, Technology, and the Future of Relating
Mar
20

Collective Wisdom: Artificial Intimacy — AI, Technology, and the Future of Relating

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

As AI and technology increasingly shape how we relate, this spring’s Collective Wisdom dialogue invites healing practitioners into a grounded, interdisciplinary conversation about Artificial Intimacy: AI, Technology, & the Future of Relating/. Together, we’ll explore how these tools influence our nervous systems, relational patterns, and capacity for genuine human intimacy—without fear or idealization.

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The Grove: A Community Reading Circle
Mar
24

The Grove: A Community Reading Circle

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

The Grove is curated by collective member, Jill Arndt. Jill is a mental health therapist in Fremont, Seattle. She specializes in working with relationships. She is excited to offer this circle to the community as a fellow journeyer in life! Books offer a space for us to connect and to process (or simply be) with others in the daunting questions we often face as humans who are constantly in relationship with ourselves and others.

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Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
Mar
27

Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immersive experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our 15 credit hour training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.

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Making Space
Mar
29

Making Space

  • In Person | The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A monthly open studio offering a relaxed, drop-in space to gather, create, and connect over art, snacks, and drinks. Optional art-therapy–inspired prompts available. Supplies provided.

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Good Grief
Apr
1

Good Grief

A healing space to share and process your grief. All types of loss are welcome. Drawing from the creative arts, drama therapy, ritual, and somatic practices, this 6-week, in person group container offers a unique alternative to healing that privileges authentic expression.

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Shelterwood Retreat
Apr
3

Shelterwood Retreat

Shelterwood Retreat | April 3-5 , 2026 | Whidbey Institute

As healers, helpers, space tenders, and feelers — we hold so much. This retreat is an invitation to step away, receive, and restore. Join us for embodied ritual, somatic practices, and time together in nature. Held by seasoned facilitators and co-created in community.

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Rooted Reflections Tarot
Apr
9

Rooted Reflections Tarot

  • In Person - The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.

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Supervision Circle with Andrew Fontana
Apr
10

Supervision Circle with Andrew Fontana

IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS

Supervision is not only a requirement for licensure, it’s a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others. Our Supervision Circles are intentional, intimate, and accessible spaces for associate-level therapists seeking high-quality supervision within a communal learning environment. This circle, supervised by Andrew Fontana, is designed to support clinical development, ethical discernment, and professional identity formation through collaborative, intergenerational mentorship.

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Supervision Circle: Solomon Chan
Apr
15

Supervision Circle: Solomon Chan

HYBRID | FOR MEMBERS

Supervision is not only a requirement for licensure, it’s a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others. Our Supervision Circles are intentional, intimate, and accessible spaces for associate-level therapists seeking high-quality supervision within a communal learning environment. This circle, supervised by Solomon Chan, is designed to support clinical development, ethical discernment, professional identity formation, and address balance/integration of life as therapists who are on and off the clock through collaborative, cross cultural, and intergenerational mentorship.

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Meeting Yourself Where You Are | An Introduction to Working with Flower Essences
Apr
25

Meeting Yourself Where You Are | An Introduction to Working with Flower Essences

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join flower essence practitioner and herbalist Phelicia Magnusson of Queen & Crow Healing Arts for Meeting Yourself Where You Are: An Introduction to Working with Flower Essences

Flower essences are gentle, energetic medicines that meet us where we are. In this experiential class, we’ll explore what flower essences are, how they’re made, and how they can support emotional healing and self-awareness. Participants will have the opportunity to work directly with essences and practice noticing sensation, emotion, and awareness in the body.

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Resource Share: Soul Work Meets Scale
Apr
27

Resource Share: Soul Work Meets Scale

FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL

A practical, heart-centered workshop for therapists and healers who want to deepen their intuitive abilities while building sustainable, ethical practices. Learn how to align spiritual gifts with clear offerings, consistent outreach, and financially healthy structures, without sacrificing integrity or care.

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The Clinic | Inviting the Body into the Session: Active Somatic Tools for Everyday Clinical Practice
May
1

The Clinic | Inviting the Body into the Session: Active Somatic Tools for Everyday Clinical Practice

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

An experiential workshop offering accessible, consent-based tools for bringing the body more fully into sessions — through movement, imagery, and sensation. Facilitated by Kyra Haglund, we'll track nervous system states, explore somatic practices for difficult emotions, and bring it together in a demo session. 

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The Clinic: Offering Experiments in Expressive Arts in Therapy
Mar
6

The Clinic: Offering Experiments in Expressive Arts in Therapy

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

Explore ways to integrate Expressive arts therapy into your practice with Pamela Krueger. You will have the opportunity to experience several creative process examples, along with the related clinical foundations and principles to support them, to gain initial competence in thinking about this therapeutic approach.

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Somatic Cacao Circle
Mar
5

Somatic Cacao Circle

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN in a space of deep nourishment, connection, and self-expression. Through the heart-opening medicine of cacao, guided meditation, sound healing, movement, and community, these somatic circles offer a rare opportunity to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the wisdom of your body.

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Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Mar
5

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

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Virtual Cacao Circle
Mar
4

Virtual Cacao Circle

VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE

Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN for a Virtual Cacao Circle. This is an invitation to slow down and reconnect with your heart from home. The gathering invites an intentional pause and includes gentle embodiment practices to support presence and connection.

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Return to the Table
Mar
1

Return to the Table

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Return to the Table is a 10-week experiential and communal journey with grief, where weekly sessions help participants build a practice that transforms their relationship with grief using emotional processing and food-centered rituals.

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The Grove: A Community Reading Circle
Feb
24

The Grove: A Community Reading Circle

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

The Grove is curated by collective member, Jill Arndt. Jill is a mental health therapist in Fremont, Seattle. She specializes in working with relationships. She is excited to offer this circle to the community as a fellow journeyer in life! Books offer a space for us to connect and to process (or simply be) with others in the daunting questions we often face as humans who are constantly in relationship with ourselves and others.

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Resource Share: Netweaving & Caseloads
Feb
23

Resource Share: Netweaving & Caseloads

FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL

Netweaving & Caseloads offers a relational, embodied approach to building your practice. Together we’ll reframe networking as netweaving — cultivating referral relationships rooted in reciprocity, trust, and sustainability. This Resource Share Workshop is especially supportive for practitioners in a season of beginning, transition, or re-orienting.

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Making Space
Feb
22

Making Space

  • In Person | The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A monthly open studio offering a relaxed, drop-in space to gather, create, and connect over art, snacks, and drinks. Optional art-therapy–inspired prompts available. Supplies provided.

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From Survival Mode to Steady: Practical Tools to Regulate Your Nervous System
Feb
21

From Survival Mode to Steady: Practical Tools to Regulate Your Nervous System

  • In Person | The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Feeling stuck in survival mode? This 1-hour workshop explores how your nervous system responds to stress and how that affects sleep, digestion, gut health, and hormones. Learn practical, sustainable tools to regulate stress and feel more grounded.

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Collective Wisdom | Working with Immigrants: Community Care & Safety Planning
Feb
20

Collective Wisdom | Working with Immigrants: Community Care & Safety Planning

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

This workshop is designed to support clinicians and helping professionals in building practical, grounded capacity to support immigrant clients during an increasingly volatile political moment. Facilitated by Smruti Desai and Natasha Moonka, participants will gain concrete tools for safety planning, harm reduction, and building community care, with an emphasis on staying regulated, informed, and relational in the face of heightened risk to immigrant communities.

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Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Feb
19

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

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Drawing from Dreams
Feb
18

Drawing from Dreams

VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE

Step into the mysterious realm of dreams through an art-based exploration of your inner world. Guided by art therapist Angela Amos, this workshop invites you to explore an art-based dream interpretation process through guided meditation, surprise images, and written self-reflection. BYOD (Bring Your Own Dreams)

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Death Cafe
Feb
15

Death Cafe

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.

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Creative Healers Hub
Feb
15

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Collage Party
Feb
14

Collage Party

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join us in community, conversation & creativity. Create a collage (or collages) that are inspired, but not limited to, the topic of community love. What does community love mean to you? What does a loving community look like? What type of community do you wish to see and create?

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Rooted Reflections Tarot
Feb
12

Rooted Reflections Tarot

  • In Person - The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A monthly tarot offering with intuitive guide Nicole Busacca. These one-on-one sessions are an invitation to slow down, tune in, and connect with your inner knowing through the supportive lens of the tarot.

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The Clinic: Supervision Edition
Feb
6

The Clinic: Supervision Edition

HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS

The Clinic: Supervision Edition is a live, supervision-centered clinic featuring a panel of experienced supervisors offering real-time case consultation. Rooted in a developmental frame, this clinic centers moments of uncertainty, transition, and complexity in clinical work. Participants are invited to observe, engage, and expand the supervisory field through dialogue and shared curiosity.

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Consult Circle with Shelley Green
Feb
5

Consult Circle with Shelley Green

VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS

This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.

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Virtual Cacao Circle
Feb
4

Virtual Cacao Circle

VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE

Join Amy Kovner, MS, LMHC, CN for a Virtual Cacao Circle. This is an invitation to slow down and reconnect with your heart from home. The gathering invites an intentional pause and includes gentle embodiment practices to support presence and connection.

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Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 2
Jan
30

Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 2

FOR PRACTITIONERS

Working with people means navigating power, race, and trauma. This workshop helps you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US - this workshop will engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies- regardless of religious or non-religious status. Learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.

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Improv for Stress
Jan
28

Improv for Stress

In person

This event is for anyone looking to learn about themselves and get out of their head. Build more confidence, form new connections, and cultivate collaboration in the context of playful, spontaneous interactions. It’s great for practicing flexibility and sitting with ambiguity in a safe setting. 

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Grief Club
Jan
28

Grief Club

VIRTUAL | FOR EVERYONE

Grief Club is a community-focused book club and writing circle centered around grief and loss. It is a gentle approach to grief exploration, tending, and support, geared at helping people feel less alone in their grief.

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